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Why isn't the Septuagint included in the Bible?
Septuagint is a first Greek translation of the Bible.
What is the Greek version of the Bible?
It is called the Septuagint.
Is septuagint is part of Jewish scripture?
No. The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Septuagint?
Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a version known as the Septuagint.
What was the name given to the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible?
The Septuagint.
Is Jewish scripture known as septuagint?
No, they're two different things. The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Greek translation of the Bible called?
AnswerThe earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures (not yet a 'Bible') is called the Septuagint, sometimes abbreviated to 'LXX'.
What does sg mean for books of old testament?
Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible. It was the basis for Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible.
Does the Septuagint include the apocrypha?
The Septuagint was a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament scriptures, with each book written on a separate scroll. There was no single, bound 'Bible' that could definitively identify which books were included and which were not. The apocrypha were translated into Greek and are considered to have been part of the Septuagint.
When and by whom was the Septuagint established as an official version of the bible?
Septuagint |ˈsep ch oōəˌjint| noun a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), including the Apocrypha, made for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and adopted by the early Christian Churches.
What has the author John William Wevers written?
John William Wevers has written: 'Ezekiel' -- subject(s): Bible, Commentaries 'Text history of the Greek Leviticus' -- subject(s): Bible, Criticism, Textual, Septuagint, Textual Criticism, Versions 'Notes on the Greek text of Deuteronomy' -- subject(s): Bible, Septuagint, Translating, Versions 'Notes on the Greek text of Numbers' -- subject(s): Bible, Septuagint, Versions 'Essays on the ancient Semitic world' -- subject(s): Vocalization, Hebrew language, Semitic philology
What was the translation of the bible from Hebrew to Greek called?
It was called the Septuagint, or in Hebrew תרגום השבעים (targum ha shiv'im)
